Tag Archives: heart-mind

Pay Attention with Your Heart

Posted on October 19, 2016 by ehurst

As long as I can remember, I’ve been praying that God would rip the cover off US secrets. When I served in the Army, I learned something about secrets. First, the bulk of stuff marked “secret” (or higher) is boring … Continue reading →

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Mission of the Heart

Posted on October 17, 2016 by ehurst

(This article is intentionally cross-posted on both my blogs.) I’ve always been a missionary. Everywhere I’ve gone, every job I’ve performed, was always a cover for my real mission in life. In my personal experience, there have been three missionary … Continue reading →

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Start with Me

Posted on October 16, 2016 by ehurst

In the Bible, the image of contemplation is far more than mere cerebral processing. It is the image of deferring to the heart, bouncing ideas off your convictions to discern the moral truth that only your heart can know. In … Continue reading →

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Variable Reality

Posted on September 30, 2016 by ehurst

Our good brother Jay DiNitto mentioned something in a recent post about Quantum Mechanics and how our conception of time is probably all wrong. Well, duh. We weren’t designed for this world. This world is not the original plan. To … Continue reading →

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Reprise: Moral Reasoning

Posted on September 26, 2016 by ehurst

We’ve picked up a crop of new subscribers lately. It’s time for one of those periodic restatements of faith. This time I’ll emphasize the basis for our moral reasoning here. Our fallen nature rests on trusting the intellect to handle … Continue reading →

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Epistemology Wars

Posted on September 25, 2016 by ehurst

It’s everywhere. Every day I encounter some dispute where the opposing sides speak past each other, because each assumes a radically different reality. It’s polarizing because there is no debate at all, just yelling spite at each other as if … Continue reading →

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The Bath of Wrath

Posted on September 11, 2016 by ehurst

Context first: I don’t dispense truth for your consumption. At most, my writing exposes to your awareness things your heart already knows. Some of us are able to subject our minds to our hearts, and we get to a point … Continue reading →

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Photography: Labor Day Ride

Posted on September 5, 2016 by ehurst

As always, click on any image to see it full-sized. CTRL-click will open the image in a separate browser tab. The ride was good exercise and my knee is getting more used to it, as you might expect. However, there … Continue reading →

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Natural Recompense

Posted on August 27, 2016 by ehurst

In my hand was one of those folding extended reach tools, which I call a “picker.” Out in Choctaw I always kept one for picking blackberries and sand plums. Around here it’s now used as a trash picker. In my … Continue reading →

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Free Care Is Expensive

Posted on August 26, 2016 by ehurst

Hospitals are not a healthy atmosphere. Yesterday was another VA appointment. I didn’t learn what I wanted to know, but I did learn something. Through the stumbling bureaucratic confusion, I managed to get an echo cardiogram. The technician said she … Continue reading →

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